http://www.biocatalogue.org

ISMB, 01 July 2009

Franck Tanoh Jiten Bhagat University of Manchester, UK

• Public, curated catalogue of Life Science Web Services

• Register, find, curate Web Services

• Share with the community, your colleagues or yourself

• Web 2.0 site and development

• REST API

• Open source code base

The BioCatalogue…

Who?

Web Services?

• A component that you send some inputs to

and get some output over a network

• Web services from different location can be used together

• Platform independent

Why?

Guesstimate 3000+ Web Services in Life Science publicly available

•Where…can I find them? advertise?

•What…do they do? Can I use them?

the cost? the licenses?

•How…do they work? up to date?

•Who…provides them? recommends them?

Stakeholders

• Service providers

advertise service

help with monitoring

• Users

find, use services

• Curators

professional, community, you!

• Tool developers

use the BioCatalogue in their application

Content

• Community contributed

– Service providers

– Third Parties

– You!

• Sourced from partners and registries

• Curators

Curation

• Free text,

• Tags, controlled vocabulary

• Automated WSDL ripping and analytics

• Automated monitoring & testing

• Partner feeds (e.g. myExperiment)

Let’s see

Demo

• Easy submission of services

• Easy discovery of services

• Better visibility of services

• Bringing service providers, curators members, users together

• Attribution

• Combining subjective, objective, measurable, social and automated information and metrics

•OpenSearch•iGoogle •Facebook •Taverna•myExperiment

•… and yours?

Alternative interfaces

Users

Services

Curation

Monitoring

Integration

test scripts

REST APIOpen Search

myExperiment

Instances and versioning

QoS feeds

notification

ratings

recommendations

Identity management

Content Provider engagementPolicy identification

Taverna

Ownership

account management

BioMoby DAS

Next?

Curation tools

Google gadget

RSS/ATOM

Try it first

Level of curation

Feedback providers

curators

More services

Internal messaging

www.biocatalogue.org wiki

Get Involved

Users oriented project

• Join our friend’s list: www.biocatalogue.org/wiki

• Contact us: contact@biocatalogue.org

Credits

Thomas LaurentHamish McWilliams

Franck Tanoh Jiten BhagatCarole Goble

Rodrigo LopezEric Nzuobontane

Steve Pettifer

Katy Wolstencroft

Robert Stevens

David De Roure

www.biocatalogue.org